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Production Manager Job Description and Person

Specification: CBD Outdoor Arts Season, Summer

2015

Creative Barking and Dagenham is a three-year project running from 2014-2016funded by the ACE Creative People and Places programme and the London

Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Our aim is to create new ways for local

people to develop and experience outstanding arts activities, and to promote the

borough as a place where exciting art - of all forms - is made and shown.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Production Manager to help

us deliver two outdoor arts events in Barking and Dagenham this summer: the

Dagenham Village festival on 11th July and No Fit State’s ‘Open House’

performances on 1st and 2nd August in Barking Riverside.

Fee Terms

£4000 freelance contract for services from March to August 2015. The contract

holder will be Studio 3 Arts as the lead organisation in the CBD consortium.

Fee payable as follows:

• £1000 on signing contract agreement

• £1000 on 1 August 2015

• £2000 on event delivery and brief evaluation

Description

Please see the end of this document for more info and background on the CBD

outdoor arts season

Main responsibil it ies:

The Production Manager will report to the CBD Programme Director and work

closely with the CBD festivals steering group made up of local residents, the CBD

Project Team, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham 50th anniversary

events team and artists and art organisations taking part in the events, including

their technical and production crews.


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The Production Manager will be responsible for producing the festival events,

managing logistics and meeting the technical and safety requirements of each

event by liaising with the relevant companies, artists and suppliers involved.

We are also keen to pass on production skills and experience to a local resident

as a legacy of our events; local skills development is a key focus of the CBDprogramme. We would like the Production Manager once appointed to support us

with recruiting a Production Assistant from the local area and to manage this role.

The responsibilities include, though are not limited to, the following areas:

• Providing technical management, safety plans and delivery schedules,

ensuring the events are sited as safely as possible within required

legislation, whilst optimising audience experiences;

• Liaising with all artists and companies who are presenting and performing

work to assess their technical requirements;

• Liaising with the relevant departments within the local authority andSafety Advisory Group with the support of the Project Team;

• Devising and managing event safety plans, crowd management plans and

weather contingency plans;

• Contributing towards the contracting of artists by supplying technical

schedules for the Project Team, artists and all performers;

• Coordination and booking all technical equipment and structural site

requirements;

• Coordination of supplies required in compliance with all health and safety

legislation;

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Seeking a range of competitive quotations for hire or purchase ofequipment where necessary;

• Producing a budget that covers the overall technical and production costs,

plus site and staffing requirements to be agreed in liaison with the

Programme Director;

• Appointing, managing and contracting all technical staff and production

staff needed to deliver the events including helping to draft a job

description for a local Production Assistant to work alongside you

• Liaising with the Project Team regarding stewarding requirements and

safety at events;

• Coordinating the technical requirements for all the artists and

performing companies• Gaining all necessary permissions, insurance documents and risk

assessments for each event within the programme;

• Event production management and being present on site in Dagenham

Village on 11 July and at Barking Riverside on 1st and 2nd August;

• For post-production ensure: sites are returned to their original condition;

that all equipment is returned to the suppliers per hire agreements; that all

outstanding payments are made and to take part in any necessary

evaluation processes


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Person Specification

To be considered you will need to clearly demonstrate the following:

• Experience of working as a Production Manager in a wide range of settings

in a number of public spaces;• Experience of working on artistic outdoor events with artists/ touring

arts organisations;

• Excellent track record of successful event delivery; delivering on-time and

within budget;

• Experience of managing the production of large and small-scale event

events through all stages; from development to completion:

• Strong communication and client-facing skills (i.e. working with a wide

range of companies, local authorities and suppliers);

• Experience of managing and contracting technical and production staff.

• A strong network of trusted sub-contractors to ensure delivery of this

service.

• Experience of working on productions across multiple sites is

advantageous.

How to apply

To apply please provide:

• An up-to-date copy of your CV (maximum 2 A4 pages);

• A written statement (maximum 500 words) outlining your relevant

experience and skills to support your application and also letting us know

how you would envisage working with a local Production Assistant whomay not have previous experience of the arts/ production

• Two testimonials/references from previous clients

• Please email your application to: [email protected]

Applications should be received by email by 5pm on 6 th March.

If shortlisted, interviews will be held on the afternoon of 9 th March at: Studio 3

Arts, Galleon Community Centre, Boundary Road, Barking, IG11 7JR

We look forward to receiving your application and thank you again for your

interest in Creative Barking and Dagenham. If you have any access needs inrelation to your application and interview then please let us know in advance.

If you have any questions relating to this please contact Miriam Nelken

Programme Director, at [email protected]


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CBD Outdoor Arts Season 2015

Background Info for Production Manager

CBD aims to deliver an outstanding outdoor arts programme in summer 2015

that is locally led and rooted, reaches the widest possible audience and leaves a

legacy of benefits for local people.

All events are taking place as part of LBBD’s 50 th anniversary celebrations of the

borough’s creation.

AIMS

• Supporting community cohesion in Barking and Dagenham through

providing fun events in community spaces where people can meet and

socialise

• Enabling local residents to develop skills and experience in events

production, curation and marketing

• Creating more opportunities for local people to see & do new things in

summer 2015 - surprising people with great arts experiences

• Developing and building local partnerships

WHEN AND WHERE

1. July 11 th - Old Dagenham Village festival

2. July 25 th - The Colour of Time by Artonik @ Parsloes Park as the finale to

the One Borough Festival *

3. August 1st 2nd - ‘Open House’ by No Fit State Circus in Barking

Riverside outside the Rivergate Centre

*This event is being covered through a separate production manager contract

BACKGROUND

One of the most effective ways we’ve been able to reach new audiences in year 1

of the CBD programme has been through visible on-street arts activities; for

example our artist stall on Barking market, empty shop project on Scrattons Farm

and mural painting in Valence. What has been working are activities that spark

curiosity, don't ask people to immediately "join the project" and can be stand

alone at first. So for year two of the programme we want to do more of what

works.

In summer 2014 we started to explore the idea of programming our own outdoor

arts events led by Cultural Connectors (local residents who make decisions about

what happens on our project) to take place in summer 2015. Maggie Clarke from

Xtrax was brought on board as an adviser for this new strand of work as Xtrax

have a huge amount of experience and contacts in the field of outdoor arts.

We and Cultural Connectors started our research and planning process by going

to see lots of outdoor arts work in the Watch this Space festival in Waterloo in Aug

2014 and in the Out There festival in Great Yarmouth in Sep 2014.


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• Creature Feature - Gorillas

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE1xAKD_bBw&feature=player_embe

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Cocoloco (http://www.cocoloco.co.uk/) Will work with a group of 10 localpeople to help them develop their own walkabout street theatre show to

perform at festivals over the summer

• The Polishers - Happy Urban Chaos (Joyeause Pagaile Urbain - France)

http://www.vernisseurs.fr/spectacles/article/joyeuse-pagaille-urbaine

• Bringing local artists, schools and communities together with Emergency

Exit Arts - http://www.eea.org.uk/ - to develop visual arts project and

designs for dressing the festival site/ creative signposting

• Fair play dodgy boys -

http://www.foolsparadise.co.uk/companies/fairplay/dodgyboys/

• Balloonatic from Fools Paradise -

http://www.foolsparadise.co.uk/companies/balloonatic/balloonatic/

• Performances from local dancers and groups in church car park (will have

suitable flooring put down during the fest)

• Galloping cuckoos – Driftwood - http://thegallopingcuckoos.com/

• Lost in Translation – Le Ballade de Bergerac - http://www.litcircus.com/


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2. August 1

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– Open House by No Fit State Circus in Barking

Riverside outside the Rivergate Centre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJN44ari4qU

A daytime happening based on and around a group of 2- 4 caravans or vehicles,

modified for high skill aerial and acrobatic circus. A company of 16 performers +

live musicians explode from their caravan homes for 2 x 2 hour Open House

programmes of public taster workshops, training sessions, impromptu stunts and

professional circus performances,with music by the Nofit State band. The

audience are invited to run away with the circus for a few hours, participate in a

range of taster circus skills workshops – including, throughout the day, tightwire,

trapeze, aerial hoop, hula hoop, object manipulation, handstands and acrobatics,

- train alongside Nofit State’s professional performers and/or sit back and watch

as the spectacle unfolds. The proceedings are hosted by an MC. No Fit State are

also contributing £5000 towards community engagement activities in the lead up

to the show.

About the site: The Rivergate Centre serves 1700 new homes in Barking

Riverside. It has a great outdoor piazza type space and decking overlooking a

river. The area will eventually have 10,800 homes and will later down the line

have a new train station serving the area and more shops and local

conveniences. Right now it's a bit inconvenient for people living there as there's

not much to do... no shops, poor transport links and a huge desire for more

activities and events to bring the community together.

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